Category: News
Things that are happening in the MONSTER group

Dr. Miller wins NSF CAREER Award!
February 10, 2021Dr. Tori Miller won an NSF CAREER Award for her proposal “A Probabilistic Framework for the Nucleation of Recrystallization.”
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The Future of Materials Science in Academia: Landing Your First Faculty Position
August 10, 2020Dr. Miller’s advice for aspiring faculty members published in JOM.
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Dr. Miller awarded ASM Bronze Medal!
July 17, 2020“For contributions bridging mechanisms of mesoscale dislocation plasticity with macroscale processing science in a wide variety of alloy systems, and for her devotion to the education and training of students.”
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Ben Begley published; Dr. Miller featured as Early Career Scholar in Journal of Materials Research
March 17, 2020“Prediction of relative globularization rates in alpha+beta titanium alloys as a function of initial crystal orientation” was recently published in Journal of Materials Research. The article was featured in the annual Early Career Scholars in Materials Science issue of JMR, recognizing faculty who contribute excellent research in the early stages of their career. Read it […]
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Justin Norkett’s Paper Selected for Cover of JOM!
February 5, 2020A micrograph from ” Liquid-metal-mediated recrystallization of zinc under ambient conditions” as the featured image on the cover of the February 2020 issue of JOM! The paper is accessible here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-019-03954-2
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Science Teachers Visit MONSTER Group Lab
January 9, 2020Science teachers visited the Monster group lab as part of an outreach event sponsored by the department. Dr. Miller and her graduate students discussed various techniques they use in the course of their research, and demonstrated tensile testing on the Instron load frame.
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Justin Norkett’s Paper Accepted by JOM
December 17, 2019Congratulations to Justin Norkett, whose paper “Liquid-metal-mediated recrystallization of zinc under ambient conditions” was accepted by JOM. The paper is accessible here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-019-03954-2
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Monster Group Moves to University of Florida!
September 1, 2019Summer 2019, the MONSTER Group moved from North Carolina State University to the University of Florida.
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Benjamin Anthony Wins NDSEG Fellowship
April 17, 2019Congratulations to Benjamin Anthony for winning the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship!
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